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Consider the salad color wheel

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Biscuit Lab Manual

Everything You Need To Know

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What is Salad Brain Creativity?

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Complimentary colors--purple on yellow, green on red

Oranges in all colors with bright greens and earthy peanuts

Watermelon cut into thin slabs look like smoked salmon

Purple potatoes, radish rounds, deviled eggs

Deviled eggs reimaged as dressing

Keep things loose

See what happens without overthinking

Cornbread wedges and corn slabs

Skillet cornbread can be croutons

Cornbread Lab Manual

Everything You Need to Know

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Kitchen|Pit Indoor Barbecue

Green Chile Pork Cornbread Skillet

Crock-Pot Lamb Tacos and Cumin Cucumber Slaw

One Hour Roast Beef

Oven Smoked Brisket

Cool Weather Grilling Season Checklist

Portuguese Pork with Potatoes and Clams (Porco Alentejana)

Liquid Smoke Equals Bacon. If You Love Bacon, You Can’t Bash Liquid...

Pulled Chicken with Alabama White Barbecue Sauce

Black Vinegar Barbecue Sauce

Borscht Beef with Smoky Crock Pot Chuck Roast

Salad Brain Exercise–Salpicon, Smoked Brisket Platter Salad

Crockpot Smoked Chicken

Salad Brain

Salad Brain Exercise–Fig Salad for Brunch

by Min Merrell October 27, 2021

Salad Brain Exercise–Salad Greens on the Side

by Min Merrell September 12, 2021

Salad Brain Exercise–Green Bean

by Min Merrell August 27, 2021

Salad Brain Exercise–Strawberries and Marshmallow Fluff

by Min Merrell May 10, 2021

Salad Brain Exercise–Grapefruit and Fennel Salad

by Min Merrell January 27, 2021

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    Jutta’s Plum Kuchen

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    Cheater Chef Homemade Tomato Sauce

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We’ll see how this goes over today. I’m diggin We’ll see how this goes over today. I’m digging it.  Beets citrus arugula olives roasted cranberries pomegranate seeds parsley red onion pistachios.  Winter fridge clean out for sure! #platteralthinking #saladbrain #plattersalad. 🎄🎄🎄🎄
My pal @bernard_philip brought this to the table f My pal @bernard_philip brought this to the table for his thanksgiving. Black cherry Jello, grilled pineapple, orange slices, celery, toasted walnuts, pomegranate seeds with yogurt honey creme sauce and roasted cranberries. Good contrast to all that brown mushy food.  Nice!  #platteralthinking #saladbrain #plattersalad
Laundry room carving station. You do what you got Laundry room carving station.  You do what you gotta do! Happy Thanksgiving! #thanksgiving
Finally made it to #crystalbridgesmuseum. What wou Finally made it to #crystalbridgesmuseum. What would architect #moshesafdie think of the  living room furniture scattered around the galleries. 😳
Somewhere west of Tulsa. I sure don’t see this Somewhere west of Tulsa.  I sure don’t see this very often.  Wanted to get a look at that other Mindy but a dude was driving.
My #eaglescout checking out the badges. @rbquinns My #eaglescout checking out the badges.  @rbquinnstagram #nationalboyscoutmuseum
Father of the atomic bomb has a beer named after h Father of the atomic bomb has a beer named after him.  Science humor! #oppenheimer
@rbquinnstagram had this for lunch. Chicken fried @rbquinnstagram had this for lunch.  Chicken fried steak and cream gravy. A Merrell family favorite. There were some vegetables and mashed potatoes under there. But why show them?  New Mex combo plate for me.
New Mexico rest stops. Adobe all the way. #newme New Mexico rest stops.  Adobe all the way.  #newmexico #route66
#cadillacranch #cadillacranch
I love a great rest stop. Texas panhandle deliver I love a great rest stop.  Texas panhandle delivers. The bathroom tile looks like the landscape.  #amarillo #route66
Love these picnic shelters at the rest stop. #tra Love these picnic shelters at the rest stop.  #trailoftears #route66
You can tell a lot about an architect by the bathr You can tell a lot about an architect by the bathroom design.  Proof that #franklloydwright was not interested in comfort.
Now that’s upping your bowl game. Truffle oil a Now that’s upping your bowl game.  Truffle oil and football is a combo that has never occurred to me!  #snacks #football
A gift left for us on the patio this morning. Must A gift left for us on the patio this morning. Must be a sign for us to do some shedding too. #snakeskin
Tennessee tomatoes of all colors and shapes and my Tennessee tomatoes of all colors and shapes and my favorite corn slabs. Look closely and you’ll see the fun parsley flower sprays that look like little fireworks. No basil.  Went with oregano. Olive oil vinegar and coarse sea salt. A blue platter is always a plus. #tomatoes #salad #saladsofinstagram #platteralthinking #saladbrain
Littleneck clams are the easiest. Hot fire, five o Littleneck clams are the easiest. Hot fire, five or so minutes, lid closed. Shake shake shake. This time with garlic and tomato. Makes its own sauce. Grilled @southcountybread a big plus. 
#rhody 
#rhodyeats 
#littleneckclams
Well I don’t have enough sun for my favorite peo Well I don’t have enough sun for my favorite peonies. Playing around with greens instead. These are my garden workhorses: Solomon’s seal, hosta, hellebore, itea. That itea is such a graceful shrub. Looks great against all these sturdy leaves.
I was in the Walmart in Columbia TN and was surpri I was in the Walmart in Columbia TN and was surprised and happy to find 10 lb bags of Martha White self-rising flour.  You’ve got to get out in the country where folks still bake biscuits regularly to find these big bags.  Even better this kuchen recipe we developed probably 30 years ago is still on the sack. It was inspired by my grandma Jutta Almy’s plum kuchen she baked in the fall with those little Italian prune plums. In the test kitchen we were alway cooking up new ways to use self-rising flour beyond biscuits. I think this one was first called Kuchen For All Seasons because the easy cake can be topped with anything seasonal and baked all year long. Still makes me chuckle. If you’ve ever wondered about the recipes on a package, they actually come from real people. The next is a great old pic of my Martha White pal Linda Carman hanging with Tennessee Ernie Ford, the spokesperson for the brand after Flatt and Scruggs. Goodness Gracious ! It’s pea pickin’ good! 
#marthawhite #tennesseeernieford #selfrisingflour #biscuitflour #oldnashville
When you go see the fabulous Alma Thomas show at t When you go see the fabulous Alma Thomas show at the Frist, be sure to notice the companion exhibit as you enter called Nashville Art Teachers: Beyond the Classroom. Alma Thomas was more than an artist. She was a career art teacher dedicated to broadening the minds of her middle school students in Washington DC.  I so appreciate that @streuliprofitt did just that for my kids at Hillsboro High School and now at Nasvhille School of the Arts. So glad to see her work in this very cool show.  What a great idea. I’m sure Alma would have loved it. #frist #fristmuseum #hillsborohighschool
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